ONION CITY PROGRAM 3: DIDASCALIES | JUNE 9-13
ONION CITY PROGRAM 3: DIDASCALIES | JUNE 9-13
The 31st Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival is streaming online from June 9 to 13. This year’s festival includes several in-person screenings and installations. Check out the full program at Onioncityfilmfest.org! Admission is a sliding scale suggested donation.
PROGRAM 3: DIDASCALIES
Streaming June 9 – 13, Artist Q&A on Thursday, June 10 at 7:00 pm
Life is encoded with endless stage directions for the presentation of self. The films in this program consider the various roles we play and engage the subtleties of performance as a restrictive and an emancipatory force within the construction of gender, ethnicity, and age. Program depicts sexual content and situations.
aromatics of longing 爆香
Made in response to the end of a long-term relationship with a birth control implant, aromatics of longing 爆香 contemplates the feeling of loss and longing tied to a changing body.
Jade Wong
United States, 2021, 14:00 mins
I Wake up with a Flower in my Hand
In January 1996, high school sophomore outcasts, Kasten Searles and Mothra (aka Malic Amalya) aired their cable access television show "Killer Janitors" across the Burlington, Vermont area where they lived. Using all original footage and adding no special effects, this remix focuses on how the best friends saw each other and understood themselves.
Malic Amalya
United States, 2021, 09:00 mins
12 Kalpas: a Beginning of Beginning
An artist's reimagination of a Buddhist myth-folktale that she grew up with in Thailand called the Twelve Sisters.
Mai Parinda Wanitwat
Thailand / United States, 2020, 08:00 mins
Communicating Vessels
An art professor tells the peculiar story of her student “E,” a strange young woman whose conceptual performance pieces and singular existence leave the professor increasingly adrift.
Annie MacDonell and Maïder Fortuné
Canada, 2020, 32:00 mins
Softer
Softer examines the demands of "softening" that are requested of Black women's bodies in society—from job prospects to romantic ones—be that in their voice, their manners, and, critically, their hair.
Ayanna Dozier
United States, 2020, 05:00 mins
How Do They Do It?
This found footage film uses mundane moments culled from a trove of vintage "adult" films found at a salvage house and the structure of a half-forgotten poem to mine meaning and examine agency, motivation, and the limited nature of possibilities in a familiar genre of filmmaking.
A. Moon
United States, 2020, 05:00 mins
Another Horizon
The horizon, where the sky and the earth meet, is always elsewhere, is a promised place where these two elements come together - a metaphor, an orienting, a promise of transition, change, transcendence -a place where the corporeal and spiritual meet, or are cleaved apart.
Stephanie Barber
United States, 2020, 09:00 mins
